Kerry says foreign ministers want to 'isolate Russia'

3/2/14 10:38 AM EST

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday there's a unified view by foreign ministers that he's consulted that "that they're simply going to isolate Russia."

"They're not going to engage with Russia in a normal, business-as-usual manner," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press," "because Russia is inviting opprobrium on the international stage. There could even be, ultimately, asset freezes, visa bans. There could be certainly a disruption of any of the normal trade routine, and there could be business drawback on investment in the country. The ruble is already going down and feeling the impact of this."

"And the reason for this ... is because you just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests. There are ways to deal with this."

Kerry said that there are other ways to protect Russian-speaking people in Ukraine. "But they are really sort of a hidden pretext here, possibly trying to annex Crimea," he said.